Booking and fee software for garden designers in the UK.
The consultation carries a fee, the design is quoted in tiers, and the drawings are paid for before anyone lifts a slab.
Start with Google- Paid consultations booked online
- Tiered quotes from concept to full build
- Online acceptance with signature
- Deposit secured on the yes
Online booking
The consultation is chargeable
An initial visit with a fee and a length on it, bookable from your page. It rather thins out the callers who wanted a free opinion on a hedge.
Learn moreSmart scheduling
Drawing days are diary days
Studio time sits on the calendar next to the site visits, so the fortnight set aside for a planting plan is not quietly booked over.
Learn moreCharge for the first hour, not the last one.
A designer is paid for thinking, and the thinking starts the moment you walk through the gate. So the consultation goes on the page as an ordinary service with a fee and a length on it.
Priced before they book it
The fee sits on the page next to how long you will be there, so nobody is startled to find that an hour of your advice has an invoice behind it.
Into a slot you actually have
They pick from the visits you have left this season, rather than filling in a form that promises a call you then have to make.
Everything after it hangs off that job
The survey photos, the concept, the fee proposal and the planting schedule all land on the same record, so a garden has one story rather than four.
Booked up until the autumn.
Design work runs months out. When there is nothing left this season the page says so, and takes the enquiry regardless.
It arrives as a thread
Address, brief and a few photographs of the garden in one place, so the drive can be weighed up before anybody picks up a phone.
Answered once, from the job
Replies live on the record rather than in your texts. What you said in March is still there when they return in September.
Slotted in when one frees
A cancelled consultation is a gap you fill from the same screen, and the confirmation rather sees itself out.
We have just taken the fences down and have no idea what to do with any of it. Is there anything left before the planting season?
Built for your trade
Built for the gardens you are actually asked to draw
Long thin Victorian terrace garden
Forty feet by fifteen and north facing. The measure-up is a paid visit and the concept that follows is what the client is actually buying.
Planning application drawings
The landscape drawing the application wants, quoted on its own line so the fee reads as a document with a deadline rather than a garden.
Conservation area front garden
Railings, permeable paving and what the officer will accept. A longer first visit, priced for it, because photographs will not do.
Herbaceous borders replanted
The structure stays, the borders are redrawn. Sold as a planting plan and a schedule, with the nursery order left to the client.
New-build plot on builder’s rubble
Levels, drainage and the first structure planting drawn before the fences go up, priced as a set the contractor can work from.
Clay soil and standing water
What will grow in it and where the water goes. The species list is the value, so it is quoted as the thing being delivered.
Courtyard behind a mews
A small space with a long plant list. Quoted at a flat fee, since the footprint has very little to do with the hours it takes.
Hedging and boundary screening
Species, spacing and how long it takes to close, drawn to scale so a contractor prices off paper rather than off a chat.
Visits during the build
Each site visit while a contractor works to the drawings is its own booking, so time on site is invoiced rather than absorbed.
A job that lives in stages, not in a morning.
Visited in March, concept in April, the full set in June, planting in the autumn. The stage a design is in tells you far more than the hour it started.
- Gemma WhitfieldBooked just now£215Accepted
- Danny OkoroOpened 2h ago£480Viewed
- The Oak CaféSent yesterday£120Sent
Which fee proposals were opened, and which went quiet.
A design fee sits on a phone next to two others for a fortnight. Seeing what has been read and what has been accepted makes the one worth a call obvious.
- 4 JunPlanting scheduleHanded over
- 19 AprFull drawing setPaid
- 2 MarConcept planAccepted
- 11 FebSite consultationPaid
The garden remembers, four years later.
They ring back when the hedge has closed and they want the far end done. Your visit, your concept, the set you handed over and what they paid for it are all still on the record.
Drawing weeks are booked work, not spare time.
Studio days are the first thing a full diary eats. Block them like a site visit and the fortnight held for a planting plan stops being negotiable.
One garden, three depths of drawing.
A concept, the full set with a planting plan, or the set plus visits while a contractor builds it. Three tiers on one document.
A fee, not an hourly estimate
Concept, drawings and planting plan are separate lines, so a queried figure can be traced back to the piece of work behind it.
Three answers, one page
Concept, full set, or the set with site visits. The client compares them without waiting on three separate emails from you.
Sent before you pull away
The proposal goes from the phone at the kerb, which tends to be before the client has got back indoors.
Extras priced as options · Pro
Pro sets the tiers side by side with one marked as recommended, and prices what a scheme tends to acquire: a lighting layout, an irrigation plan, a further round of revisions. Ticking one moves the total.
- Concept plan · rear gardenDesign£1,600
- Planting & hardscape documentationDocumentation£2,400
- Design & build supervision6 weeks£1,800
Paid for the thinking, then the set.
The fee arrives in pieces, months apart. Cash and bank transfer recorded by hand cost nothing; cards come with Pro.
Cash and transfer are free
Mark the consultation paid when the transfer lands. That costs nothing on any plan, and it will carry on costing nothing.
Cards come with Pro
A card link for the consultation, and another when the drawings and the planting plan are handed over.
Stage the design fee
Part at concept, the balance at the final set. Staged requests come with Pro and go out once the job is booked.
- Gemma WhitfieldP-1011 · 25 Jun · Bank transfer£380
- Danny OkoroP-1012 · 25 Jun · Cash£240
- Aisha PatelP-1013 · 28 Jun · Card£380
- Liam DochertyP-1001 · 27 Jun · Card£190
Starts free. Grows
only when you do.
Add your whole team and get booking for nothing.
As you grow with us you can go Pro.
One app for the whole job
Everything you need to run your garden design business.
Common questions.
You can, and it is treated as any other booked service: a fee, a duration, and a slot the client picks themselves. Cards run on Pro, and a bank transfer you record by hand costs nothing on any plan.
No. The title is not protected and there is no licence. The Society of Garden and Landscape Designers, renamed from the Society of Garden Designers in February 2025, accredits Registered Members who use the letters MSGD, and that is voluntary. Bookables does not check or display it.
Yes. Named options on one estimate, one of them marked as recommended, and the client chooses how far the drawings go before they accept. Tiered options come with Pro.
The client opens the link, reads the tiers and types their full name. The time is recorded on the job, and the accepted estimate becomes a booking with its lines intact.
Then the only thing on your board is your own work: the visits you make while they build to your drawings, each booked and each billed. Their programme is not yours to run.
It generally is. Two hundred bookings a month are included, no card is needed, and a practice running consultations, studio days and site visits will not trouble that ceiling.
